Day September 23, 2005

If you missed the news last night, Rita is projected to stop moving when it gets to northeast Texas, and will sit there for several days dumping torrential amounts of rain. Oil production and refineries in Rita’s path Water cascades…

Over the past four months here in LA we’ve printed and distributed over 100,000 flyers for Sept. 24, pasted up hundreds of posters, and made thousands of phone calls. Today I was in the office helping paint banners and assemble…

The internationally renowned correspondent for The Independent — the great British journalist Robert Fisk — has been banned from entering the United States. Fisk has been covering war zones for decades, but is above all known for his incisive reporting…

The timing and strength of the latest storm could cause worse spike at the pumps than Katrina did. It’s because so many refineries are in Rita’s path.

A leading US human rights group accused prison officials in New Orleans yesterday of abandoning hundreds of men in the city jail in the run-up to Hurricane Katrina, leaving them locked up without food, water, electricity, fresh air or functioning…